JavaScript is the world’s most popular lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language. JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification.
- Launched Date: December 4, 1995; 25 years ago
- Designed by: Sun Microsystems
Server-side JavaScript gained popularity because it allowed for the scalability needed in cloud computing and the back-end & Front-end. Browsers contains owns engines that can process JavaScript quickly, and this has encouraged more server-side usage. Node. JS, or Node, is one of the most popular versions of server-side JavaScript.